Strategic Leadership

You’ll learn: Diagnose a leadership challenge and choose a response that fits.

You’ll apply: Sort evidence in a sample case, compare diagnoses, and test your intervention choice.

You’ll build: A challenge diagnosis and matched intervention choice.

You’ll leave with: A diagnosis canvas, evidence and assumption notes, intervention rationale, and a first-action plan.

Tools and frameworks: Adaptive Leadership; Technical vs. adaptive challenge diagnosis.

Ways to participate: Guided / Applied / Stretch.

You’ll learn: Frame a decision with clear alternatives, assumptions, and criteria.

You’ll apply: Restructure a sample executive decision and challenge the evidence behind its options.

You’ll build: An executive decision frame with explicit assumptions and criteria.

You’ll leave with: A one-page decision frame, options and criteria table, prioritized assumptions, and an evidence-gathering next step.

Tools and frameworks: Decision framing; Assumption mapping and decision criteria.

Ways to participate: Guided / Applied / Stretch.

You’ll learn: Design an ethical influence strategy without formal authority.

You’ll apply: Map stakeholders in a sample cross-functional case and rehearse a first request.

You’ll build: An influence and coalition strategy map.

You’ll leave with: A stakeholder and coalition map, evidence notes, a conversation sequence, and a rehearsed first request.

Tools and frameworks: Influence mapping; Power, trust, incentives, and coalition analysis.

Ways to participate: Guided / Applied / Stretch.

You’ll learn: Diagnose adoption barriers and match support to the evidence.

You’ll apply: Map readiness in a sample rollout and test whether your intervention addresses the gap.

You’ll build: A readiness map and targeted adoption intervention plan.

You’ll leave with: A readiness map with evidence, a focused adoption action, an owner, and a follow-up measure.

Tools and frameworks: ADKAR and change-readiness diagnosis; Resistance and readiness mapping.

Ways to participate: Guided / Applied / Stretch.

You’ll learn: Match your leadership response to the task, capability, confidence, commitment, urgency, and ownership.

You’ll apply: Compare sample tasks, rehearse a response, and revise it when the situation changes.

You’ll build: A leadership-response matrix and next-action plan.

You’ll leave with: A response matrix, a rehearsed opening conversation, ownership boundaries, and a review trigger.

Tools and frameworks: Situational Leadership and leadership range; Direct, coach, facilitate, and delegate matrix.

Ways to participate: Guided / Applied / Stretch.

You’ll learn: Stress-test a strategy under different plausible conditions.

You’ll apply: Build sample scenarios, compare implications, and define contingent actions and signals.

You’ll build: A scenario matrix with strategic implications and contingent actions.

You’ll leave with: Four bounded scenario sketches, an implications table, no-regret and contingent actions, and a signpost list.

Tools and frameworks: Scenario planning; Two-by-two scenario matrix and implications analysis.

Ways to participate: Guided / Applied / Stretch. Optional configured spreadsheet.

You’ll learn: Prepare a principled negotiation with clear options and authority limits.

You’ll apply: Build and rehearse a sample negotiation plan, then revise it after new information.

You’ll build: A negotiation plan with interests, options, BATNA, and boundaries.

You’ll leave with: A preparation canvas, option packages, an alternative-to-agreement assessment, and a rehearsed opening and follow-up.

Tools and frameworks: Principled negotiation; Interests, options, BATNA (your best alternative if agreement is not reached), and boundaries.

Ways to participate: Guided / Applied / Stretch.

You’ll learn: Map feedback and unintended consequences before choosing a transformation intervention.

You’ll apply: Build and critique a small causal-loop map using a sample transformation case.

You’ll build: A causal-loop map with leverage points and second-order risks.

You’ll leave with: An editable causal-loop map, a causal-assumption log, and a bounded intervention and observation plan.

Tools and frameworks: Systems thinking; Causal-loop mapping and second-order effects.

Ways to participate: Guided / Applied / Stretch.

You’ll learn: Match your response to the context and design a safe-to-fail learning experiment.

You’ll apply: Compare sample contexts and test the boundaries, signals, and stop rules of a proposed experiment.

You’ll build: A context diagnosis and safe-to-fail experiment design.

You’ll leave with: A context rationale, experiment card, observation criteria, and stop or amplification rules.

Tools and frameworks: Cynefin and complexity sensemaking; Context classification and safe-to-fail experiment design.

Ways to participate: Guided / Applied / Stretch.

You’ll learn: Make and defend portfolio tradeoffs using criteria, capacity, and opportunity cost.

You’ll apply: Compare a sample portfolio and test how changed assumptions affect your choices.

You’ll build: A defensible portfolio decision with explicit stop, defer, and protect choices.

You’ll leave with: A prioritization model, sensitivity notes, opportunity-cost explanation, and a decision record with review triggers.

Tools and frameworks: Portfolio prioritization; Weighted criteria, opportunity cost, and stop/defer/protect choices.

Ways to participate: Guided / Applied / Stretch. Optional spreadsheet sensitivity check.

You’ll learn: Design clear decision rights and accountable follow-through.

You’ll apply: Compare RAPID and DACI in a sample case, select one, and test its exception paths.

You’ll build: A decision-rights map with named accountability and follow-through.

You’ll leave with: A selected-framework role map, decision record template, escalation rules, and follow-through checklist.

Tools and frameworks: RAPID and DACI decision-rights design; Decision-rights and accountability mapping.

Ways to participate: Guided / Applied / Stretch.

You’ll learn: Connect transformation goals to an operating model and sustainment plan.

You’ll apply: Map a sample change, define review routines, and test an ownership or quality setback.

You’ll build: An operating-model blueprint and 30/60/90-day sustainment plan.

You’ll leave with: A capability and ownership map, governance and support routines, a sustainment plan, and an exception-response note.

Tools and frameworks: Operating-model design; Capability map, governance, and 30/60/90-day sustainment.

Ways to participate: Guided / Applied / Stretch.